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Our culture tries to convince us on just about every front that more is better. More is a sign of wealth, luxury, power. Gone are the days when meals were moments of connection and conversation; now it’s all about consumption and calories. ↗

— Mary DeTurris Poust

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Even if you can’t be totally mindful at every meal, if you can say a blessing, silently if necessary, or offer up a prayer for someone, something beyond yourself and your food, the prayer helps to transform eating into something that affects not only our hunger at that moment but the greater world. ↗

— Mary DeTurris Poust

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By becoming aware of God’s Spirit, by slowing down and paying attention to the tastes and sounds and smells of the food we make and eat, we infuse our meals—and by extension our hearts—with a sense of awe, a depth of prayer that cannot help but transform our mindless eating into moving meditations. ↗

— Mary DeTurris Poust

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Seek and see all the marvels around you. You will get tired of looking at yourself alone, and that fatigue will make you deaf and blind to everything else. - Don Juan ↗

— Carlos Castaneda

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Do not speak about anyone who is not physically present. ↗

— Allan Lokos

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You cannot pour more water into a full cup without causing a spillage. ↗

— Rasheed Ogunlaru

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I've no interest in being thought provoking. Who needs more thoughts. I'd rather go down as one who is thought disposing. ↗

— Rasheed Ogunlaru

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If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath. ↗